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No. 236,707. Patented Jan. 18 I881.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVIN T. JONES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PAINT-GUARD FOR WlNDOW-PANES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 236,707, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed September 16, 1880. (ModeL) 4 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVIN T. JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paint- Guards for Window-Panes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a device for protecting the glass of windows from being soiled when applying paint to the sash.

The improvement will first be described, and the invention then designated in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 Fig. 2 is a top view, showing a different manner of attaching the spring. Fig. 3 is an end view of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end view of the device shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side view of a device.

The letters A A designate two plates of steel having righ t-angled corners and straight edges, which are, on the upper surface, beveled off to a thin edge, as shown at b. The two plates are connected by means of a spring, 0, so that when the device is placed with one plate against one pane of glass and the other plate against an adjoining pane the spring will serve as a clamp to press both plates against the sash-strip; the thin edge 12 will be inserted slightly under the edge of the sash-strip, while the plates lie flat against the pane. Although a special handle, it, is shown in the drawings, the same is not necessary, since the spring 0 serves every purpose of a handle.

It will be understood that the sash-strip may now be painted by any one, however unskilled, without soiling the glass, as the plates A protect the glass.

In the form shown in Figs. 2 and 4 one end of each plate is bent up, as shown at A, and projects from the flat surface of the plate substantially at a right angle. The said projecting part A is narrower than the plate, made narrower in the present instance by cutting away each edge 01 of the said part. Thereby the part A will not touch the sash-strip, and the edges 1) of the plates will not be hindered from insertion under the sash-strip.

Abar, E, having one end secured to the bent-up end of one plate, has its other end slotted, as shown at f, and extended across the bent-up end of the other plate, which has a headed rivet, g, secured thereto, so that its shank will pass through the slot of the bar, allowing the latter to move endwise across the bent-up end A of the plate. This bar E serves to keep one plate from overlapping the other, as it would be likely to do when the device was withdrawn from the sash-strip, and thereby prevents one plate having fresh paint on its upper side from soiling the lower side of the other plate.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A paint-guard for window-panes, having two plates adapted to rest against the glass, and connected by a spring, substantially as described.

2. In a paint-guard for window-panes, the combination, with two guard-plates, both of which are adapted to be placed against separate but adjoining panes, of a bar extending across both plates and having one end rigidly secured to one plate, and the other end movably secured to the other plate, substantially as described, whereby to permit of the independent movement of said plates, but to prevent one from over-lapping the other, as set forth.

3. In a paint-guard for window-panes, the combination, with the guard-plates A, which rest against the glass, of a part, A, projecting from the surface of the plate, as described, and which is narrower than the plate, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEVIN T. JONES.

Witnesses:

CHAS. B. MANN, J. WALLACE MoGURLEY. 

